Kevin's Watch

So far I've covered the Hell's Angels, my Pirate Name (Piranha Scurvy) and the band Sweetbox.

Anyone else too tired to sleep?

We Feel Fine

Click on "Murmurs" in the lower left.

says i need java...
i have no coffee here...

And again, although I should really be sleeping. I have tomorrow off. *meh*

Man Code

thank you balon, i posted that to my friends.

Insomnia IS good for something!

I once stayed awake for five days. I got so listless that I kept saying "yeah" to everything people were telling me. Yeah...

after a day now i get cranky. used to go a few days.

Lord Foul wrote:I once stayed awake for five days. I got so listless that I kept saying "yeah" to everything people were telling me. Yeah...

Did you lose your colour vision?

No, but when I looked around, I often saw spots of light, as if I had been staring into the sun or a fluorescent lamp.

Come to think of it, I may have stayed awake for more than five days. Everything was a blur, so it was hard to tell. And even on the night I did sleep, I wasn't really sure I had. Someone asked me if I did and I said, "I don't know. I might have just stared at the ceiling."

It got pretty scary. Each day I got less and less communicative, going from terse phrases to just "yeah." At one point, I honestly thought I might just stop talking.

Lord Foul wrote:No, but when I looked around, I often saw spots of light, as if I had been staring into the sun or a fluorescent lamp.

Come to think of it, I may have stayed awake for more than five days. Everything was a blur, so it was hard to tell. And even on the night I did sleep, I wasn't really sure I had. Someone asked me if I did and I said, "I don't know. I might have just stared at the ceiling."

It got pretty scary. Each day I got less and less communicative, going from terse phrases to just "yeah." At one point, I honestly thought I might just stop talking.

*biting lip*

...I remember those days, LF...

Sleep deprivation can cause permanent side affects.

so can cat poop.

Trichinosis, also called trichinellosis, or trichiniasis, is a parasitic disease caused by eating raw or undercooked pork and wild game infected with the larvae of a species of roundworm Trichinella spiralis, commonly called the trichina worm. The few cases in the United States are mostly the result of eating undercooked game, bear meat, or home reared pigs. It is most common in the developing world and where pigs are commonly fed raw garbage.

Esmer wrote:so can cat poop.

That is one reason I have trouble dating women. I keep on insisting they get tested.

for cats?

No, for Toxoplasmosis. That parasite causes behavioural changes in men and women. I, for one, don't want to get any stupider, and second, don't want to date a woman who has a parasite making her into a trollop.

Emotional Leper wrote:Sleep deprivation can cause permanent side affects.

I often wonder if I lost anything essential during that time, as far as brain function. But hell--I've always been slow with certain things, especially numbers. I still do well in my English classes, and I'm always improving as a writer. If there's any problem, it's most likely psychological--leftover fears or OCD from my anorexic days.

Lord Foul wrote:

Emotional Leper wrote:Sleep deprivation can cause permanent side affects.

I often wonder if I lost anything essential during that time, as far as brain function. But hell--I've always been slow with certain things, especially numbers. I still do well in my English classes, and I'm always improving as a writer. If there's any problem, it's most likely psychological--leftover fears or OCD from my anorexic days.

The only side effects of prolonged sleep deprivation I am aware of that I am told are common (from people who've had to deal with it excessively for whatever reasons,) are after about five days you may lose your colour vision, and it may not come back for a very long time, or ever, and that after about five or six days, permanent personality change can occur. Loss of colour vision is apparently common, but permanent loss is uncommon. Personality change is hard to judge unless it's extreme, though.

trollop

SYLLABICATION: trol·lop
PRONUNCIATION: trlp
NOUN: 1. A woman regarded as slovenly or untidy; a slattern. 2. A strumpet.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps from troll1, to roll about, wallow.